missing fs ksyms

2000-06-14 Thread Ben Fennema
I think buffer_insert_inode_queue and fsync_inode_buffers need to be added to ksyms.c for ext2 to compile as a module in later 2.4-ac kernels. Ben

Re: Trimming VFS inodes?

2000-06-14 Thread Hans Reiser
Richard Gooch wrote: Hi, Al. I'd like to explore an idea Linus suggested a while back. He suggested using VFS inodes as the data store for devfs, rather than keeping stuff in devfs entries. So the idea would be that the VFS maintains the tree structure rather than devfs entries. This

Boot errors after manual mount/unmount of EXT3 fs

2000-06-14 Thread Cassandra Sewell
Has anyone seen this problem. I have a machine which is using partitions that are EXT3 w/ Linux V 2.2.5-15. I was performing a mount/unmount of an EXT3 fs. Every thing was working fine When I got an system hang on the issue of an unmount for the ext3 fs. The system was rebooted and then I

Re: Trimming VFS inodes?

2000-06-14 Thread Richard Gooch
Alexander Viro writes: On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: I'd like to see something more drastic. Indeed, that union crap is by far the worst offender and needs fixing. But there's a whole pile of other junk that's just not needed all the time. Richard, may I remind you that

Re: Trimming VFS inodes?

2000-06-14 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: I'd like to see something more drastic. Indeed, that union crap is by far the worst offender and needs fixing. But there's a whole pile of other junk that's just not needed all the time. Richard, may I remind you that we are supposed to be in the

Re: Trimming VFS inodes?

2000-06-14 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: Yes. And all that time mounting the thing at several point was a huge, fscking hole. Sure. And hence RedHat wasn't going to compile it in. Fine with RedHat, but how in hell does it solve the problem? I don't _CARE_ for any "party line". I don't

Re: Trimming VFS inodes?

2000-06-14 Thread Richard Gooch
Alexander Viro writes: On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: Yes. And all that time mounting the thing at several point was a huge, fscking hole. Sure. And hence RedHat wasn't going to compile it in. Fine with RedHat, but how in hell does it solve the problem? I don't